Books like Infinite Crisis

The 7-issue miniseries event that rocked the entire DC Universe in 2005-2006—a sequel to the epic CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS—is now collected in an amazing hardcover collection! Written by Geoff Johns (GREEN LANTERN, TEEN TITANS) with art by a who's who of comics' greatest talents—including Phil Jimenez, George Perez, Jerry Ordway and more, this hardcover is a must-have for any DC collector. OMAC robots are rampaging, magic is dying, villains are uniting, and a war is raging in space. And in the middle of it all, a critical moment has divided Earth's three greatest heroes: Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. It's the DCU's darkest day, and long-lost heroes from the past have returned to make things right in the universe…at any cost. Heroes will live, heroes will die, and the DCU will never be the same again! This exhaustive volume also contains every cover and variant produced for the project, annotations, character designs, excerpts from scripts, unused scenes, and much more. Editorial Reviews Gr 7 Up Prior to DC Comics's revamp of its superhero universe in Infinite Crisis , a series of prelude miniseries were released to set up the larger conflicts that the central title would address. Despite the fact that each of these series including Greg Rucka's The OMAC Project and Gail Simone's Villains United (both 2006) ended abruptly and had a promised follow-up "special" yet to be published, they were collected in trade paperback. Unable to be included in the already-released trades or compiled with the massive Infinite Crisis collection, they appear in their semi-orphaned state in this book. The title is actually apt, but it doesn't make the effect any less jagged: the stories are clearly continuations of distant events, and they have only the most tenuous of internal connections. To use popular comic-universe terminology, they are a tangled mass of "continuity," helping to draw lines between other books, events, and situations. The varied artwork i